Word: background
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classic generalization which almost makes his effort worthwhile: "In addition the society serving as the basis for the New England preparatory schools--th upperclass, urban East--cannot help but be classified as a decadent society in a decadent region." His authority for the statement springs from a Boise, Idaho background...
...less though to his article than his antagonist. To him all public school boys are doomed to intense concentration in academic life, aimed solely at getting a lucrative position in their home town environment. He throws around Mom and Togetherness as if tney were synonymous with a public school background, a theory which only demonstrates his complete disassociation from the world of which he writes...
...Defense Department is getting ready to launch a new organization-Advanced Research Projects Agency-to be headed by a civilian with top-level executive capacity, a scientific background and a strong bridge to the scientific community. ARPA will take responsibility for the study and development of antimissile missiles, the weapons possibilities of satellites, all other novel weapons systems. ARPA's responsibility will extend only over development; once weapons reach operational stage, the services will take over...
...children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...
...living quarters on the Gold Coast also reflected his social background. Endicott Peabody, official preacher to the University, often decried the "gap between Mt. Auburn Street and the Yard," and it was just such expensive dorms as Westmorly Court, where F.D.R. lived, that Peabody disliked...